On November 17th,&nb sp;the CSL team will host a CSL Learning Lab on the topic of Interdis ciplinary Community Service Learning
How do you make inter disciplinary collaboration actually work for students, for educators, and for the partners involved?
That is the question at the
centre of this session. Community Service Learning connects educatio
n to real societal challenges. When you add an interdisciplinary dime
nsion, a new layer of complexity comes in. Getting students from diff
erent disciplines to not just sit at the same table, but to genuinely
think and work from their different perspectives. Getting mono-disci
plinary colleagues to build something coherent together. Bringing a s
ocietal partner into that process in a way that’s either productive
or at least instructive (preferably both).
These are logical wall
s to bump into, and there are no easy answers. But we can teach each
other from experience.
During this s ession we use the Interdisciplinary Community Service Learning module s (iCSL1 & iCSL2) as a central case. iCSL is a Master’s electiv e developed by the Athena Institute, consisting of two modules open t o students from any Master’s programme at VU. You can find more inf ormation here.
We look at w hat interdisciplinary collaboration looks like in practice: how stude nt teams are formed, how societal partners are involved, and what thi s means for course design. But this session is as much a conversation as a presentation. Whether you are already running an interdisciplin ary course or just starting to think about it, your experience is par t of what makes this session useful.
Speakers will be announced shortly. More information about the programme, location and content will follow in the coming weeks.
DESCRIPTION: On November 17th, the CSL team will host a CSL Learn ing Lab on the topic of Interdisciplinary Community Service Learning How do you make interdisciplinary collaboration actually work for stu dents, for educators, and for the partners involved?